Modest vs Brag - What's the difference?
modest | brag |
Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements, unpretentious, humble.
Small, moderate in size.
(especially of behaviour or clothing) Avoiding being sexually suggestive.
To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, can do, or has done.
* Shakespeare
To boast of.
*Shakespeare
A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.
* Shakespeare
The thing which is boasted of.
* Milton
(by ellipsis) The card game three card brag.
First-rate.
(archaic) Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
* Ben Jonson
As adjectives the difference between modest and brag
is that modest is not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements, unpretentious, humble while brag is first-rate.As a verb brag is
to boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, can do, or has done.As a noun brag is
a boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.As an adverb brag is
proudly; boastfully.modest
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- He earns a modest amount of money.
- Her latest novel was a modest success.
Synonyms
* See also * See also * See alsoAntonyms
* immodestDerived terms
* modest proposal * modestybrag
English
Verb
- to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money
- Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, / Brags of his substance, not of ornament.
- Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade
Synonyms
* boastDerived terms
* braggart * bragging rights * humblebragNoun
(en noun)- Caesar made not here his brag / Of "came", and "saw", and "overcame".
- Beauty is Nature's brag .
- (Chesterfield)
Adjective
(bragger)- a brag young fellow